Quote of the Day -- Trevor Noah

We tell people to follow their dreams, but you can only dream what you can imagine, and, depending on where you come from, your imagination can be quite limited. 

-- Trevor Noah

Quote of the Day -- Frederick Douglass

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. 

-- Frederick Douglass

May the stars carry your sadness away, may the flowers fill your heart with beauty, may hope forever wipe away your tears, and above all, may silence make you strong. 

-- Chief Dan George

Quote of the Day -- Thomas Merton

The things that we love tell us what we are. 

-- Thomas Merton

Quote of the Day -- Socrates

To find yourself, think for yourself.

 ― Socrates

Quote of the Day -- James Baldwin

Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.

James Baldwin

Quote of the Day -- Thomas Jefferson

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

 ― Thomas Jefferson

Quote of the Day -- Willa Cather

That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.

 -- Willa Cather

Quote of the Day -- H.L. Mencken

It is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that tendency it is not sufficient to exhibit the true; it is also necessary to expose and denounce the false.

-- H.L. Mencken

Quote of the Day -- Bruce Schneier

Data is the pollution problem of the information age, and protecting privacy is the environmental challenge. 

-- Bruce Schneier